HIT: Women Writers

[Sarah Katz <skatz@BEDFORD.K12.NY.US>]

Thanks for all your suggestions! The English teacher and I are splitting up
some reading already.

Here they are:

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (English)

"Battle Dress" by Amy Efaw.  It's about a girl going through the 1st weeks
of training at West Point. I couldn't put it down.  I read about 20 books
this summer and thought what a depressing bunch of stories for young
adults, probably one reason I liked this book.

How about Julia Alvarez?  Toni Morrison? Isabel Allende?  Laura Esquivel?

Willa Cather
Pearl S. Buck
The story of the Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp

Just off the top of my head, "Charms for the Easy Life" or anything else by
Kaye Gibbons, "The Broke Diaries" by Angela Nissel and, of course, To Kill
a Mockingbird.

I am using a great anthology with my English 11 students entitled
Discovering Fictioned. by Hans P. Guth and Gabriele L. Rico.  It has a diverse
and modern selection of male and female writers.  The questions are thought
provoking and there are wonderful lessons on how to write about fiction.  It
also includes student examples of writing  which are of a very high quality.
If you can't find it here are a few suggestions: Alice Munro (Canadian) short
story Boys ands Girls. She has many other stories as well and novels.  Joyce
Carol Oates, Tillie Olsen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
(depressing but very good), Ursula K. LeGuin (science fiction), Alice Walker,
Dorothy Parker The Standard of Living, Toni Cade Bambaram, Margaret Atwood,
Will
Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Bharati
Mukherjee, Amy
Tan, Jeanette Winterson The World and Other Places. Barbara Kingslover is
another who comes to mind.

How about THE ROAD TO COURAIN (sp.), Look at books by Joan Bauer, also
see Lowry's GATHERING BLUE from Helen Dittmer

Toni Morrison
Kaye Gibbons
Jill McCorkle

A great reference source for women writers and a summary of their
works is the series titled Masterplots II--Women's Literature Series.

Whaley, Liz.
    Weaving in the women : transforming the high school English curriculum /
Liz Whaley & Liz Dodge. -- Porthsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook, c1993.
    xvii, 300 p. ; 24 cm.
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.
    ISBN 0867093277 (acid-free paper)
    1. Women and literature--Study and teaching (Secondary). 2. English
literature--Women authors--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Alcott wrote some, Joyce Carol Oates has some with an edge to them,  Mary
Higgins Clark, Fransesca Block,..


Sarah Katz
Library Media Specialist
Fox Lane High School
Bedford, New York 10506
skatz@bedford.k12.ny.us

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